This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to
help me retain
information from the books I'm reading. Currently can only be used by
a single user (myself), but I plan to extend it to support multiple
users eventually.

Africa is not destined for underdevelopment

Africa is not destined for underdevelopment

Governments can pick winners

Governments can pick winners

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer

it only works under certain conditions: if they're forced to actually invest in productive things (through policy measures) and then share the fruits of such growth through a strong welfare state (or other such mechanism)

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer

it only works under certain conditions: if they're forced to actually invest in productive things (through policy measures) and then share the fruits of such growth through a strong welfare state (or other such mechanism)

US managers are over-priced

part of the reason behind high executive paychecks is the power this class commands--often, they sit on other companies' boards and thus have no reason to question rising paychecks as a whole (p155). plus, as a class, they have enormous political power, even for supposedly leftist parties like the Democratic Party

US managers are over-priced

part of the reason behind high executive paychecks is the power this class commands--often, they sit on other companies' boards and thus have no reason to question rising paychecks as a whole (p155). plus, as a class, they have enormous political power, even for supposedly leftist parties like the Democratic Party

Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient

Good economic policy does not require good economists

Good economic policy does not require good economists

there is nothing "natural" about the situation we are in now (post-2008 financial crisis)--we need to understand how we got here and stop voting for neoliberal policies that will only hurt us in the end (in a nutshell)

there is nothing "natural" about the situation we are in now (post-2008 financial crisis)--we need to understand how we got here and stop voting for neoliberal policies that will only hurt us in the end (in a nutshell)